{"id":293020,"date":"2026-02-20T06:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/293020\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T06:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:59:08","slug":"eric-dane-greys-anatomy-mcsteamy-actor-dies-at-53-from-als","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/293020\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Dane, Grey\u2019s Anatomy \u2018McSteamy\u2019 actor, dies at 53 from ALS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">Dane\u2019s other TV and film credits included Euphoria, Burlesque, Valentine\u2019s Day, Marley &amp; Me and The Last Ship.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Eric Dane played Mark Sloan on Grey's Anatomy. Photo \/ABC.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Eric Dane played Mark Sloan on Grey&#8217;s Anatomy. Photo \/ABC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">Last year Dane announced his diagnosis of ALS, a neurodegenerative disease also known as Lou Gehrig\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThroughout his journey with ALS, Eric became a passionate advocate for awareness and research, determined to make a difference for others facing the same fight,\u201d his family said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHe will be deeply missed and lovingly remembered always. Eric adored his fans and is forever grateful for the outpouring of love and support he\u2019s received.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">The family has asked for privacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dane\u2019s other TV and film credits included Euphoria, Burlesque, Valentine\u2019s Day, Marley &amp; Me and The Last Ship.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[83636,3376,57429,61230,1975,430,52856,6179,7126,156,46351,71,162166,162167,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-293020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-83636","tag-actor","tag-als","tag-anatomy","tag-at","tag-celebrities","tag-dane","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-entertainment","tag-eric","tag-from","tag-greys","tag-mcsteamy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}